A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful hore. 1889. German philosopher Fr...
A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful hore.
1889. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a hore while traveling in Turin, Italy. He tossed his arms around the hore's neck to protect it then collapsed to the ground. In less than one month, Nietzsche would be diagnosed with a serious mental illness that would make him bed-ridden and speechless for the next eleven year until his death. But whatever did happen to the hore? This film, which is Tarr's last, follows up this question in a fictionalized story of what occurred. The man who whipped the hore is a rural farmer who makes his living taking on carting jobs into the city with his hore-drawn cart. The hore is old and in very poor health, but does its best to obey its master's commands. The farmer and his daughter must come to the undertanding that it will be unable to go on sustaining their livelihoods. The dying of the hore is the foundation of this tragic tale.
